Steve Earle Quotes
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Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
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It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
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Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.
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I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
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Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.
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I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.
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Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.
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Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
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I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail; as grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace will keep me believing to the end. Faith, both in its origin and continuance, is a gift of grace (Phil 1:29).
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We need to develop people rather than process them.
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Make what you most need to find
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So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.
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Part of American leadership is making sure that we're doing nation building here at home. That will help us maintain the kind of American leadership that we need.
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I can be around kids if I need to be.
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Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.
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When I fall in love I take my time There's no need to hurry when I'm making up my mind You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine and I'll tell you why.
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Technically I can get out of my wheelchair and crawl around and do things, but when I've traveled and they've lost my wheelchair in transit, I feel like I need to be bound to it. My functionality and autonomy are often bound to this.
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Everyone is so caught up in his own passions and interests that he always wants to talk about them without getting involved in the passions and interests of those to whom he speaks, although his listeners have the same need for others to listen to and help them.
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Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.
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One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people into them in order to get their basic needs met - what I call "administrative violence." I had images of forms with gender boxes and ID cards with gender markers, but I also wanted an image that would capture how basic services like shelters are gender segregated.
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Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.
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The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.
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I had everything I need to get me killed.
